FROM their triumph on the world's biggest stages to the untold story of the motorcycle accident which irrevocably changed Michael Hutchence's personality, the Never Tear Us Apart mini-series will finally lift the veil on the inner workings of INXS.

The two-parter has been sanctioned by the band and will be the only film project with the rights to use the music of INXS.

The joint production from Seven and Shine was green-lit yesterday by Screen Australia and will begin filming in Australia in June.

INXS guitarist Tim Farriss said the mini-series would reveal events and circumstances unknown even to the individual band members.

Their manager Chris Murphy only recently mentioned to him that Mick Jagger had snuck into their first ever sold-out gig at the Royal Albert Hall in London in the late 1980s.

Farriss joked that he wanted a "young Bill Murray'' to play him in the series.

"This is our chance to get it right, to get everything off our chest,'' he said.

"There is still stuff I don't know which is going to come out in this mini-series; I think it will be hard to stay away from the set.''

Shine Australia's Mark Fennessy, who travelled with the band in their Kick and X heyday as they celebrated world domination, said the series would also expose the dark side of Hutchence after he suffered head injuries in a motorcycle accident in the early 1990s.

"I don't know how many people know about his motorbike accident in Thailand - a lot of people thought it was in Copenhagen. He got king hit by a taxi driver, his brain shifted and he lost his sense of smell and taste,'' he said.

"He became quite dark, cynical, aggressive and depressed and while he was on Prozac, that was on top of everything else he was taking.

"It was a frustrating time for him and the band.''

Fennessy and longtime INXS manager Chris Murphy have been scouting local bands to cast Hutchence, with American actor James Franco also mentioned.

Murphy said actors were also being cast to play Bono, Paula Yates and Kylie Minogue. She will feature in pivotal scenes including an infamous mile-high incident in a first-class cabin, witnessed by Bob Hawke.

But the manager said the focus of Never Tear Us Apart was to remind people just big INXS became and to restore their musical legacy.

"We have been sitting on one of the greatest rock'n'roll stories ever for so long now,'' he said.

Farriss said he did not regret the band's decision to step down from touring after their recent shows with Matchbox Twenty.

"We haven't split up as a band and it's still in our nature to get up every morning thinking about music. But yeah, I've got itchy fingers already,'' he said.